Who is HELM Arts?

HELM Arts was started by Kirsty Law at the end of 2019 after over a decade of working in the Scottish arts in a variety of ways. A performer, musician and artistic collaborator herself, Kirsty has taken part in numerous large scale interdisciplinary arts projects, as well as producing her own. Working with Finnish artists whilst sailing across the North Sea, collaborating with visual artists in a disused herring factory in northern Iceland, touring as a folk singer, aiding in the installation of many visual art exhibitions of photography, drawing, painting and moving image work, performing on the shorelines of a Scottish island as part of a large contemporary music project, taking a groundbreaking modern piece of female storytelling to a Malaysian literary festival - are just some of the exciting things that Kirsty has been involved in in her career so far.

To make this work happen she has also spent many hours writing funding applications, finding venues, learning how to visually represent different artists and musicians in promotional contexts, and how to represent this work in writing.

From planning to the execution of each project, her approach is broad and creative, always asking first and foremost ‘what best serves the work?’

Kirsty is passionate about creating a support service that is inclusive. Helm Arts is arts company that aims to support and listen to the needs of LGBTQ+ people, people of colour, women in male-dominated sectors, people with a disability, people in remote communities and anyone else marginalised in the work that they do.